Process of preparing bed-quilts for sewing



Patented Oct. 29, 1889.

W. H. PALMER, J1-. PRO-U'ESS'OF PREPARING BED QUILTS FOR SEWING.

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35 known manner.

' 1 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM II. PALMER, JR, OF NORWICH, ASSIGNOR TO PALMER BROTHERS,

- OF NEW LONDON, CONNECTICUT.

PROCESS OF PREPARING BED-QUILTS FOR SEWING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 413,811, dated October 29, 1889.- Application filed April 29, 1889. Serial No. 308,933. (No specimens) To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM H. PALMER, J r., of Norwich, in the county of New London and State of Connecticut, have invented a V certain new and useful Improvement in the Process of Preparing Bed-Quilts for Sewing,

of which the following is a specification.

My improvement relates to processes for preparing bed-quilts for sewing across their Io ends.

I 5 novel features in a claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a plan or top View of a machine whereby my improvement maybe carried out. 'Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of a portion of a certain clamp which may be employed. Fig. 4: is an end view of the same. Fig. '5 is a side elevation of another portion of the clamp, and Fig. 6 is an end view of the same. Figs. 3 and 5 are broken away in orderto save space, but the portions broken away are likethose shown.

The materials of which the bed-quilts are composed comprise the filling material a,

which may be cotton-batting or any other suitable material interposed between outer coverings a of any woven fabric. The materials thus united are conveyed along in a continuous strip, and their outer edges are sewed together by sewing-machines in a well- After being thus sewed together the strip is passed between feedingrollers 0. In the machine which I have illustrated for carrying out my process these feedrollers are mounted in a frame A, which 0 frame has a depressed portion a constituting a receptacle, into which the goods after.

passing between the feed-rollersare received. In front of the frame A is a table A.

In carrying out my process I measure off a definite length of the goods, or suificient thereof to make a bed-quilt. The goods having been thus measured off, I compress them widthwise and at right angles to the direc tion of their lengths. Such compression is exerted upon both sides of the goods and extends wholly across the same, and is exerted in two parallel lines which are adjacent to each other, but have a space between them. The goods are then cut between the lines of compression. The compression is maintained upon both ends of the quilt thus severed, and the same is then in proper condition to be sewed across its ends.

In the machine which I have illustrated as being adapted to carry out my improvement the compression of the goods is accomplished by means of clamps B B. These clamps comprise, as here shown, upper bars I) and lower bars I). The upper bars I) are provided upon their upper sides at their end portions with springs 19 to the outer ends of which are hung links b The ends of the portions 17 of the clamps are provided with projections b. The frame A is transversely recessed at c. The lower portions b of the clamps are placed in said recesses. The upper portions 1) are then placed upon the material and the links 27 are brought down and hooked over the projections 19 at both ends. It will thus be seen that the goods are compressed upon both sides in parallel lines extending at right angles to the direction of length of the goods, and that there is a space between the lines of compression. A knife drawn through this space will sever the measured-off portion of the goods from the balance. The clamps are permitted to remain upon the ends of the severed quilt, so that the compression at these points will be maintained until the sewing across the ends of the quilt is to be performed. The quilt having been severed and conveyed away, the clamp 13' upon the ends of the strip of goods is moved along until it will fall into a depression cl in the table A. The required length of material for a quilt is thus measured off and the goods at the required point are again compressed in order to be severed.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The process of preparing bed-quilts, consisting in first sewing the material of which the bed-quilt is to be composed along its side edges, then measuring off a sufiiciant quantity of such material for a quilt, then where 1oo the quilt is to be out off compressing the maremaining will be maintained under oomterial upon both sides throughout its Width pression after severing, substantmllya-s speel- 10 in parallel lines extending at right angles to the length of the goods, so that a space will be left; between said compressions, and subsequently severing the goods between said compressions, whereby both the ends of the quilt so severed and the end of the material fied.

\VILLIAM H. PALMER, JR.

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ALoNzo II. HARRIS, AMos A. BROWNING. 

